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Murder Ink | 2/10/2010 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 6 Murders this Year: 18 Monday, Feb. 1 8:15 a.m. Police found John England, a 27-year-old African-American man, lying between the curb and a construction wall in the 2200 blo...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 2/3/2010 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 2 Murders this Year: 12 With just two homicides this week, as of Feb. 1, Baltimore City had 10 fewer homicides this year than the same time last year. Monday, Jan. 25 ...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 1/27/2010 |

Murders This Week: 4 Murders This Year: 10 Monday, Jan. 18 2:35 p.m. Darius Goines, a 19-year-old African-American man, was found shot several times in the head and body in the hallway of an ...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 1/20/2010 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this week: 0 Murders this year: 5 There were no murders in Baltimore this past week through Friday, Jan. 15, the last date for inclusion in this column due to an early holiday deadline....[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 1/20/2010 | By Anna Ditkoff

Baltimore City went six consecutive days without a murder. As of Monday, Jan. 18 there were nine fewer homicides this year than at the same time in 2009. Sunday, Jan. 16 5:30 a.m. Police were ca...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 1/13/2010 | By Andrea Appleton, Anna Ditkoff

Murders this week: 4 Murders this year: 5 One murder was removed from the 2009 homicide total in December and another was added. Baltimore Police are no longer counting the Dec. 9 police-involved s...[MORE]

Murder Ink Updates

Murder Ink | 1/6/2010 | By Anna Ditkoff

The murder of Roger Dennis, a 25-year-old African-American man, has been closed by exception. Dennis was shot in the 1900 block of West North Avenue in 1997. He died on Aug. 1, 2008. The man police be...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 1/6/2010 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 4 Murders in 2009: 238 Murders in 2010: 1 Baltimore City saw four more homicides in 2009 than in 2008. While this total keeps the city's homicide rate at a low not seen since...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 12/30/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 8 Murders this Year: 235 Two deaths were added to homicide rolls this week, putting the city one homicide above last year's total of 234. Police were called to the 2800 block ...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 12/23/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders This Week: 3 Murders This Year: 227 Wednesday, Dec. 16 3:33 p.m. Darnell Gray, a 35-year-old African-American man, was riding in the back seat of an SUV with a bunch of friends. When ...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 12/16/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 6 Murders this Year: 224 The death of Josue Zelaya, an 18-year-old Hispanic male, has been removed from the Baltimore Police Department's official homicide tally because it has be...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 12/9/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 9 Murders this Year: 219 Numerous homicides from previous years were added to the rolls this week, dating all the way back to 1994. Tavon Waters, a 23-year-old African-American m...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 12/2/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 5 Murders this Year: 210 The death of a man assaulted in 2002 was added to the homicide rolls this week. On Dec. 29, 2002, Larry Staton, a then-51-year-old African-Ameri...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 11/25/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 5 Murders this Year: 205 Monday, Nov. 16 12:26 a.m. Antonio Smith, an 18-year-old African-American male, died at an area hospital. Smith was found lying in the ...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 11/18/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 9 Murders this Year: 200 Monday, Nov. 9 3:20 p.m. Kenneth Ray Jones, a 46-year-old African-American man, died at a local hospital. The day before, at 2:47 p.m., Jones an...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 11/11/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 4 Murders this Year: 191 Tuesday, Nov. 3 6 p.m. Police discovered a dark-gray car that had been in an accident in the 1300 block of West Fayette Street by Franklin Square. Jos...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 11/4/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 3 Murders this Year: 187 Monday, Oct. 26 10:15 p.m. Joshua McKinny, a 24-year-old African-American man, was pronounced brain dead at an area hospital. McKinny was shot two day...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 10/28/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 3 Murders this Year: 184 The death of Constantine Frank, a 54-year-old Caucasian man, was added to the homicide rolls this week. On July 29 at 8 p.m., an employee of Frank's b...[MORE]

Murder Ink Update

Murder Ink | 10/21/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

In this week's Murder Ink, we reported on the sentence Melanie Blevins, a 23-year-old Caucasian woman, received after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the death of her infant son. B...[MORE]

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Murder Ink | 10/21/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 5 Murders this Year: 181 Tuesday, Oct. 13 8:46 a.m. A resident of the Saint Josephs neighborhood in Southwest Baltimore called police and told them a body could be found in t...[MORE]